Wardrobe-trunk attachment



w. R. DICK'SON. WARDROBE TRUNK ATTACHMENT.

I I APPLICATION FI LED JAN 21. I919- 1,426,823, Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

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WILLI M R. DICKSOLLOF saw rnancrsoo, CALIFORNIA.

WARDROBE-TRUNK ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 22, 11.92%,

Application filed January 21, 1919. Serial No. 272,359.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. DICKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wardrobe- Trunk Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in so called wardrobe trunks, which are trunks in which garments are suspended from garment hangers slidable upon a suspension rod extending in the trunk across one end thereof.

Such trunks are intended to stand upon the other end and it is a recognized objection to such trunks that, if the trunk should by carelessness be inverted, the garments fall in an indiscriminate mass and subsequently become creased and wrinkled.

It has been attempted to avoid this objection by making the end of the trunk contain ing the suspension rod of an oval or convex rounded. form, so that it is impossible to stand the trunk on its head, as that end may be termed, but it has been found that thereby said end of the trunk is greatly weakened, and, as a result, this method of avoiding the objection to wardrobe trunks has been practically abandoned.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a simple and inexpensive means of overcoming the said objection, which will not weaken the head of the trunk.

Such means consists, in general, of provid ing or forming an end of the trunk with means whereby, if the trunk be stood on. said end, it will stand in a sloping and obviously insecure and unstable position, so that by reason of such form with its attendant results, baggage men or others would refrain from standing the trunk on said end.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a wardrobe trunk equipped with my improvement; Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the improvement detached; Figures 3 and i are views similar to Figures 1 and 2 of a modified form of the invention; Figures 5 and 6 are similar views of another modification.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a wardrobe trunk. On one corner of the end containing the suspension rod 2, (shown in dotted lines) from which the garments are intended to be suspended is secured a projection 3, preferably of metal, either cast, or

stamped from sheet metal. Said projection comprises a plate portion 4: in the form of a right angled triangle adapted to liesnugly against the head of the trunk with a right angled corner thereof registering with a corner of said head, and to be secured thereto by means of any suitable number, three being here shown, of rivets 6. It also comprises, preferably formed integral with said plate, and extending along the shorter sides of said right angled triangle, walls 7 each increasing in height from one of the other corners of the plate to the right angled corner thereof, the sides of each wall conver ing towards each other from the base. l/V ere the tops of said walls meet, the juncture is enlarged to provide a comparatively wide flat surface 8, in order to avoid cutting of a floor, carpet, or another object by said juncture.

In the form of the invention shown in Figures 3 and 4 the projection 9 is made of sheet metal, reinforced by a filling, if desirable, and in this case the outer sides of the walls of the rojection are extended down by the sides of t e trunk and are secured thereto by rivets 12.

In the modification shown in Figures 5 and 6, the projection 13 is located, not at a corner of the head of the trunk, but at the middle of one side thereof and its structure is modified accordingly. It is still formed with a flat plate 14 in the form of a right angled triangle, but the longer side thereof is now placed continuous to an edge of the head of the trunk. It is provided with one main wall 16 rising from said longer side and a reinforcing wall 17 rising from the middle of the plate and extending at right angles to the said first-named wall. In other respects said plate is similar to that first described.

The wardrobe trunk to which a device of this character is attached is very well protected against being inverted and set on its head, for the reason that the appearance of the projection itself will indicate that the end to which it is attached is to be maintained uppermost, but in addition the projection very strikingly indicates that the trunk must not be placed on that end, for it is obvious that, when so resting, it would stand in a sloping, insecure, and unstable position, resting only on said projection, the opposite corner, and only one of the other two corners.

Baggage men and others handling a ardrobe trunk, on finding that, if stood on the end having one of these projections attached thereto, it is very unstable and liable to be easily knocked over from one position to an other Will avoid placing the trunk on that end; and'by force of 'habit'the practice of standing the trunk on the proper end will be performed unconsciously by them.

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A e c o t chment o a end iota Wardrobe r kadjacen an end dge i messes from the point Where joined to their free ends certain oi said projections being disposed substantially in alinement with an edge of the plate, whereby said projection maybealined with anendedge of the trunk.

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